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By Marcel Honoré mhonore@staradvertiser.com Posted on September 20, 2017

Updated on September 20, 2017 at 2:59 pm

In the only recovery plan they ever hope to write, Honolulu rail officials say it’s “realistic and achievable” to build the full line to Ala Moana Center with the $9 billion total they now expect to receive.
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A fundraiser for the Hawaiian voyaging canoe Hawai‘iloa and the nonprofit group that manages it, Friends of Hokule‘a and Hawai‘iloa, will take place 2 to 5 p.m. Sept. 24 at the Hard Rock Cafe in Waikiki.
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By Marcel Honoré mhonore@staradvertiser.com Posted on September 2, 2017

Updated on September 2, 2017 at 12:23 am

Four months after their initial efforts collapsed, state House and Senate majorities have swiftly passed a $2.4 billion funding deal, hoping it will finally be enough to get rail all the way to Ala Moana Center.
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The latest bill to bail out Honolulu’s woefully over-budget rail transit project has cleared another key hurdle, with the state Senate advancing the measure to the House, where it’s expected to pass handily.
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With hostilities escalating over rail this week, state lawmakers are accusing Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell and city leaders of “padding the budget” with an 11th-hour increase to their estimated costs that could derail the project.
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The Hokule‘a kicked off its “Mahalo, Hawai‘i” sail last week with a stop at Olowalu reef, an important but imperiled marine refuge that just became Hawaii’s first globally recognized “Hope Spot.”
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Two months after safely returning from what the University of Hawaii’s president called an “audacious, bold and slightly crazy” voyage around the world, the Hokule‘a is venturing back to where it all began.
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With the special session on rail looming in two weeks, legislators still don’t have a deal. But leaders from both chambers appeared open to raising the state’s hotel room tax to help rescue the beleaguered transit project during a marathon hearing Monday.
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The conditions recommended for the Thirty Meter Telescope this week by a former Hilo judge are virtually identical to those in the controversial project’s original 2011 permit for work atop Mauna Kea.
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The state Land Board will listen to oral arguments Sept. 20 in Hilo on whether to issue a key permit for the controversial Thirty Meter Telescope, which a consortium of universities and astronomy institutions has proposed to build atop Mauna Kea.
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The Honolulu rail board is in final talks to hire as its new top executive a rail technology firm manager who once battled the city over its most expensive rail contract, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.
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